Tonight Homer was on the mound against Oakland and he absolutely dominated. His fastball was sitting at 94-96 and he blew away the Oakland hitters with it. Every Oakland hitter was late on his fastball and most couldn't keep it in play. He threw straight heat right by Eric Chavez to strike him out in two straight at bats. He only gave up two hits in 7 innings and maybe 4 balls were hit out of the infield. His curve was also working. He had Jack Cust shaking his head after he dropped his 12-6 curve on him twice in one at bat to strike him out. He was also much more efficient with his pitches, only throwing 93 in 7 innings. His strikeouts numbers are pretty bad but he owned the A's tonight with his fastball. The kid amazed me tonight.:ncaabbs::ncaabbs:

yeah, i watched the whole game again. He was excellent. i told you his command is awesome. He is the one of the most polished 21 yr olds i've ever seen. They obviously fixed his mechanics, because like you said, this was the hardest he's thrown and his 12-6 curve was nasty. The changeup was awesome too. I think the only thing that i found weird, was how he really isn't a strikeout pitcher. He's more like one of those hard throwing command pitchers. That's not a bad thing, it's just odd. I mean he's walked more than he's struck out.

Yeah, Chavez looked silly trying to catch up with his heat. Was a little surprised they took him out after 7 innings considering the over-worked pen. Was nervous when I saw Coffey trot out to the mound.

Bailey is very poised and fun to watch. I can't wait to see him in person.

yeah, i was so pissed that they took him out. i'd love to know the reasoning.

I had no problem with it. Coddle Homer. I would love to see him at a pitch count of 95 or so.

not quite wow last night. I find it odd that he only has 8 K's in 19.2 innings. Not to mention his K/BB ratio is 2/3.5.

I didn't catch the game last night but I heard he got rocked. It happens so I'm not too worried. But his lack of strikeouts is very surprising.

JFlight21 Wrote:I didn't catch the game last night but I heard he got rocked. It happens so I'm not too worried. But his lack of strikeouts is very surprising.

that's what i'm saying. It's very surprising, but he's young and throws 91-96 so you can't get too worried.

so It looks like he's not ready. He just got knocked out of another game after only a few innings. So far this season he has 19 walks and 10 k's in 23.1 innings. I think its safe to say that I was right about him not being ready. Was he at least throwing hard today?

I have no clue. I didn't watch the game, I have given up on the Reds and moved onto other things this summer. I'd rather have him learn in the bigs than in triple A at this point. The team isn't going anywhere this year so I would rather have him learn from big league coaches than minor league guys.